Improvement in generating gases for heating and illumination



J; ARBOS,

GENERATING GASES FOR HEATING AND ILLUMINATION.

Kline 5,73;

Myflg Patnted Dec. 8, 1863.

UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

JAo UEs ARBOS, or BARCELONA, SPAIN.

v IMPROVEMENT IN GENERATING GASES FOR HEATING AND ILLUMINATION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,804, dated December 8, 1863.

To all whom it-may concern.-

.Be it known that I, JACQUES ARBos, of Barcelona, in the Kingdom of Spain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Generating certain Gases for Lighting and Heating, and in Apparatus employed therein; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying draw- My invention consists, first, in the formation, ashereinafter described, of a gaseous compound, and in mixing it, in retorts heated to a red heat, with gas arising from the distillation of coal, or from the decomposition of fixed or Volatile oils, resins, tars, or fatty bodies to manufacture gas suitable for light ing and heating, and second, in an. apparatus for generating the gaseous compound.

.'-The apparatus consists of a furnace lined with'fire-brick, and, by preference, in the shape of an inverted cone with a circular grate at bottom, through which air supplied by a blast isadmitted from a pipe below, its admission being regulated by a tap. There isa conical vessel with opening at top placed on the mouth of the furnace, through which coal or other fuel is introduced, and by which gas is allowed to escape at the commencement of the operation. I As soon as inflammable gas is produced, the opening is closed by a conical stopper. nace, through which tar, oils of resin, of schist, of petroleum, or liquefied fatty matters are introduced when required. The gas generated in the furnace passes off by a tube from the 'upper part of the furnace into ordinary readmitted to the furnace.

- O is the ash-pit. There is an opening between the ash-pit and the grate, through which they may be cleaned.

D is a pipe, through which air supplied by a blast is admitted to the furnace. A tap is fitted in it for regulatiug'the admission of the all; I

A siphon-tube passes into the fur-- E is a conical vessel open at top, through which fuel issupplied to the furnace, and by which the gases evolved at the commencement of the operation are allowed to pass ofll. As soon as inflammable gas is produced, the opening is closed by a conical stopper.

F is a siphon-tube, through which tar, resin, shale, or petroleum-oils, or liquefied fatty matters are introduced, as required.

G is a tube, by'which the gas generated in thefurnace passes off into retorts, as before mentioned.

The working of the apparatus is as follows: The fire is lighted on the grate B, and air admitted by the pipe D below. The furnace is charged with coal, tar-oils, or liquefied resinous matters are introduced gradually through the siphon-t be F, and thetop opening, E,-is-

closed as soon as the gases escaping therefrom become inflammable. The gases then issue through the exit-pipe G and pass into ordinary retorts heated to redness and charged with coal. The gases become mixed with the coalgas, and become deprived of carbonic acid and the undecomposed volatile oils. To ascertain the proportion in which the gas produced in the apparatus should be mixed with the gas in the retorts, whereby its richness is increased, I use a gas-burner to test its burning-power prior to admitting it into the gasometers. Thus I am enabled to increase or diminish. the quantity of gas or gaseous compound introduced from the apparatus, and

consequently to regulate'the heating or lighting powersof the gases stored in the gasometers.

Having now described the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to.

be performed, I declare that I claim- 1. The formation of a gaseous compound,

as hereinbefore described, and the. mixing of the same with gasarising from the distillation of coal, or from the decomposition of oils, resins, tars, or fatty bodies to manufacture gas suitable for lighting and heating.

2. The apparatus for generating the gaseous compound, constructed and acting substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

' In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification before .two subscribing witnesses.

J. ARBOS.

Witnesses:

MARCO SLUoH, S. J AUME. 

